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virtual pc + autocad
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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can anybody say whether or not autocad will run efficiently using virtual pc on a powerbook w/ 1.5 gigs of ram?
thanks
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I don't think anything runs efficiently with VPC and an app as demanding as autocad could very be brought to its knees.
FYI
This thread will probably will get locked shortly. VPC is a software app and belongs in the software forum.
Mike
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I run r.14 with Virtual PC. It has some graphic redraw problems, and I/O processes are slow, but otherwise, it's fine.
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I have recently been playing around with SolidWorks under VPC, and it runs, and I can do what I need. It doesn;t run blazingly fast though, keep that in mind.
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15 inch MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 7200 RPM 100GB HDD.
Dual 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, ATI Radeon X800XT.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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AutoCAD should run. Will it run effectively? That, I don't claim to know. I don't have much experience with it.
This is unfortunate, because AutoCAD is like Photoshop in that if you really need AutoCAD, nothing else will do. You don't see much independent use of AutoCAD -it's too expensive for that- and so when people need to run it, it's generally for the sake of interoperability with some big group that we have no hope of converting.
This said, what do you need it for? We may still be able to help, depending on the situation.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by Millennium:
This is unfortunate, because AutoCAD is like Photoshop in that if you really need AutoCAD, nothing else will do.
Sad, but true. An interesting thing often forgotten about AutoCad is it's CLI (Command Line Interface). Nowadays that's seen as an archaic way to use a program, but once you know the 30 or 40 commands you need you type with one hand and mouse with the other. No hunting for little icons all the time.
I suppose this is analogous to how some folks love typing in terminal versus using some combination of programs with a GUI.
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